Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century

Graham Robb

W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 - 341 sider

A sweeping and compelling history of homosexuality in the nineteenth century, taking in both Europe and America. The three part work is divided up by theme. The first part deals with the treatment of homosexuals, both male and female, by the rest of society - from doctors to law-makers and mothers. Part two describes the lives and loves of gay men and women, and the beginnings of the early gay rights movement. And in the last part Robb writes on crucial aspects of gay culture, from high-brow to pornographic, from religious obssession to modern gay icons. This is not a sorry tale of prejudice and persecution. Rather, it is one of surprising tolerance, humour and entertainment; of a century that was almost a 'golden age' for gay culture. All is written with Robb's characteristic brilliance, balance and insight. It is a history for all readers of non-fiction, not for gay readers alone, emphasizing as it does the fruitful part that homosexuality has always played in our modern society.

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This is a really, really excellent book about the history of queer sexuality. What I loved most about it was how thoroughly it debunks the myth that no one identified as queer before the ...

STRANGERS: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century

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Literary biographer Robb (Rimbaud, 2000, etc.) gives resonance and shape to homosexual life and love in 19th-century Europe and North America, "the obstacles it encountered and the societies it ...

Indhold

• PREJUDICE: 1
• PART ONE: 15
• IN THE SHADOWS: 17
• COUNTRY OF THE BLIND: 40
• OUTINGS: 84
• PART TWO: 123
• MIRACULOUS LOVE: 125
• SOCIETY OF STRANGERS: 156
• A SEX OF ONES OWN: 174
• PART THREE: 191
• FAIRY TALES: 193
• GENTLE JESUS: 229
• HEROES OF MODERN LIFE: 249
• APPENDICES: 267
• I Criminal Statistics: 268
• II A Categoric Personal Analysis for the Reader: 272
• III Map of Uranian Europe: 274
• Acknowledgements: 276
• NOTES: 277
• WORKS CITED: 303
• INDEX: 328

Om forfatteren

Best-selling author Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. His book Parisians was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives on the Anglo-Scottish border.

Bibliografiske oplysninger

• Titel: Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century
• Forfatter: Graham Robb
• Udgave: illustreret, genoptrykt
• Udgiver: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
• ISBN: 039302038X, 9780393020380
• Længde: 341 sider